descriptiongeometriciansunite,asmuchaspossible,thepracticewiththeStrange,butsoitis,thatthosethingswhichreflectt ...
geometricians unite, as much as possible, the practice with the
Strange, but so it is, that those things which reflect the greatest
honour on the human mind are frequently of the least benefit to it!
A man who understands the four fundamental rules of arithmetic,
aided by a little good sense, shall amass prodigious wealth in
trade, shall become a Sir Peter Delme, a Sir Richard Hopkins, a Sir
Gilbert Heathcote, whilst a poor algebraist spends his whole life in
searching for astonishing properties and relations in numbers, which